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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: RealMuLan who wrote (57704)12/29/2004 7:12:41 AM
From: elmatador   of 74559
 
There is a vacuum of leadership and Brazil is quickly filling this vacuum. Fast high jacking the opportunity in a time when the U.S is on the defensive, (due to the Iraq invasion) and the US have diplomats with an old outlook in charge of negotiations. Work with the U.N., avoid 'divide and rule', get support from African and Asian nations plus the LATAM countries hence Lula's trips abroad, and try to project some leadership.

As the US looks to world affairs under a defense perspective, LATAM is looking under an economic development perspective and taking the space before the US comes back and give it attention.

<<U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick last year labeled Brazil a "can't do, won't do" country.>> He is wrong and Bush should sack him!

Here's why: Brazilian diplomats of the era of Cold War and closed economy are retiring and given way to a new generation more pragmatic and less ideological. They feel they can do and they will do. They are a generation post-straw dog.
For them, the US is already back to its natural size.

We have now the modern outlook and vision while the US is still stuck with guys like Zoellick. Remember why O'Neill was sacked? Zoellick should be fired too.

The writing is on the wall: LATAM will be grouped under the Brazilian leadership. That's why Brazilian diplomacy has to avoid 'divide and rule'
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